Do Mormons Have a Problem With Tolerance?

[SoDesuKa]

Mormons were behind Prop 8 in California, so much so that it became known as the Mormon Proposition. Tons of money poured in from Utah to make sure gays in California couldn't get married.

The Mormons are involved in this Arizona thing, too. Mesa is a Mormon stronghold, and State Senator Russell Pearce, the guy who introduced the immigration law, is their home-town hero. A Latter Day Saint, he's also a latter-day Bull Connor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYHh88qTvYQ&feature=related

Do Mormons have a problem fitting in? Do they believe that brown-skinned people are the bad Indians that Joseph Smith warned against? How can anybody vote for Mitt Romney now? And it's not because he carried the dog on top of the family station wagon.

[RandomThoughts]

1. I don't know about the bad Indian stories.

But I will say this, people should take each event and thought on its own merits.

I always thought the 'Indian' reference was one used by people that thought they were the more evolved conquering the commoners, and those commoners that stand up are off the reservation. That kind of thought, where those that thought they were better, think they are just conquering another group of Indians.

To think any one person is always right or always wrong, and use that as your guide, removes the use of the talents of thinking and feeling God gives people.


Sometimes people use some dictate as always right, or do the opposite of some other as always wrong. The funny thing is if someone does the opposite of what they think is bad, that bad still guides them. So I think if someone can rationally, and with thinking and feeling think something is bad, then they should ignore that thing.

[YOY]

2. They have a problem with Catholics...this much I have gathered...

And a sizable portion of the Latino crowd is Catholic.

[Stevenmarc]

3. It's their magical underpants, they tend to get in a twist.